John E. Riutta
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As Bowden told Brooke Gladstone during an interview regarding his recent book Dreamland, “My dream is to invite a reader into a room and pour a nice cup of tea and then nail the damn door shut.”
Continue Reading →Calpurnia Tate is the child all naturalists wish they were as children: endlessly curious, possessing of boundless energy, and most important of all, beginning their explorations of the natural world at an age when the mind has not yet been conditioned to repress questions because they might seem silly or pointless to others.
Continue Reading →It is too easily forgotten that some of the world’s greatest naturalists were also devoutly religious; Darwin himself studied to be a clergyman prior to his sailing on the H.M. S. Beagle.
Continue Reading →Fact: Peru has 1,817 known species of birds. Fact: you can’t identify all of them on sight. Fact: neither can I.
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